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“ We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. ”

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It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

~ Anne Sullivan

Anne Sullivan Children Great Mistake

My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has shone upon my little pupil's mind, and behold, all things are changed!

~ Anne Sullivan

Anne Sullivan Morning Light Joy

I need a teacher quite as much as Helen. I know the education of this child will be the distinguishing event of my life, if I have the brains and perseverance to accomplish it.

~ Anne Sullivan

Anne Sullivan Life Education

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

~ Anne Sullivan

Anne Sullivan Child Painful Him